LexBlog IP

JULY 18, 2023

He writes that, “[w]hile attorneys swear an oath to set aside their personal prejudices, biases, and beliefs to faithfully uphold the law and represent their clients, generative artificial intelligence is the product of programming devised by humans who did not have to swear such an oath.” This doesn’t sound so great.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Ariel Goldberg is a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Sedlik claims that Kat Von D infringed the copyright protection of his iconic photograph of world-famous jazz musician Miles Davis (“Davis”) when she tattooed the image onto a client’s body without authorization and posted photos of the tattoo on social media.

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IPilogue

APRIL 4, 2022

Her privacy has been repeatedly invaded by complete strangers since childhood. Throughout her life, perfect strangers have invaded her privacy without regard for her emotional wellbeing. Haunted by Mariana’s lifetime of distress, and in search of answers, I landed at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. Where does one even begin?

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Nepal Privacy Act was passed in September 2018. The Privacy Act, which implemented the constitutional right to privacy, had a big influence on how personal information was used legally. An NFT and the corresponding permission to use, copy, or display the asset can be bought and sold in digital markets. Conclusion.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Think of social media, whose data are scraped and used to train Large Language Models (LLM) (e.g. Reddit or X (Twitter) data for ChatGPT) and which try to ban AI data scraping via technical tools and contractual terms (see class action against OpenAI for privacy and copyright infringement). This raises questions of liability.

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2021

Shawn Dhue is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . These are just some of the words that Hadiya Roderique ’s Black on Bay Street self portrait emphasizes for a first-generation Black law student like myself. Photo by Joshua Hanson (Unsplash). Influential. The Legal Side.

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Intepat

JULY 4, 2023

However, in addition to these limited measures, the trademark laws in India provide the following comprehensive remedies for trademark infringement. The digital age has afforded individuals the privilege of maintaining their privacy while carrying out infringing activities. Ashok Kumar Petitions – Legal remedy for unknown infringers.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 19, 2023

A new track by Drake and The Weeknd is going viral on social media and is bound to top the charts. There is nothing “copied” by the AI models and therefore no copyright to infringe. Data Privacy Data privacy may eventually create a path to protection but this will not come easy. million times on TikTok.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When sales are replaced by pirated copies, authors earn a lot less. Instead they cite lobbying efforts by the Authors Guild to seek action from Congress to change copyright law in a way that compels services such as Google to completely delist “notorious foreign-based piracy sites”, rather than simply reducing their visibility.

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Intepat

MAY 16, 2023

This brings us to the question of whether the usage of such photographs is lawful or not, regardless of the person being a celebrity. A fraudulent lottery-winning message with Amitabh Bachchan’s voice from KBC was viral through various social media platforms and many people fell into this trap. Under this Act, Sec.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

In particular, they are having some success bending Section 230, and this genre offers some interesting considerations for folks paying attention to the privacy/230 borders. The post Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Callahan v. PeopleConnect, Inc., Whitepages.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

A brand that uses material generated by AI in a public-facing manner – such as in an ad or a social media post – could run the risk of infringing on another’s rights, for which the brand could be held liable. Additionally, under current U.S. Third, there are potential confidentiality issues to consider.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

PopSugar allegedly created profiles of prominent social media influencers and copied their photos from Instagram without permission, leading to a class action lawsuit. This isn’t just a concern for celebrities and influencers but signals a broader threat to the privacy and rights of everyday individuals as well.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Third, Shared avers that Meta committed breach of contract (Claim 3), intentional misrepresentation (Claim 5) or negligent misrepresentation (Claim 6), and violated California’s Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”) (Claim 2), see Cal. Facebook appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. & Prof. Bonne chance.”).

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 6, 2024

PopSugar allegedly created profiles of prominent social media influencers and copied their photos from Instagram without permission, leading to a class action lawsuit. This isn’t just a concern for celebrities and influencers but signals a broader threat to the privacy and rights of everyday individuals as well.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Moreover, contrary to The Satanic Temple’s novel argument, domain registration is not the same as registration for a social media website.” “Defendants present some evidence of the Chavez Brothers’ belief, at the time of the put-back notices, that Defendants held rights sufficient to upload the subject media.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 4, 2022

Users were reluctant to upload their creations to a place where everyone could easily get a copy just by making a right-click. Also, our automation plugs into the creator’s workflow and pulls data from social media accounts and blogs, protecting and monitoring it automatically. Just set it and forget it.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

It varies from creating an alternate persona on a social media account to voicing an animated character in a movie. The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Social Links is our ongoing series here at Socially Aware that rounds up current developments at the intersection of social media, policy, research, and the law. Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright infringement.but is it? ” These decisions will most likely end in appeals.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

How do other areas of law treat relevance of death? Dignitary interests: false light, IIED, privacy typically expire w/person. Consumer protection: laws meant to protect consumers, death doesn’t matter—Princess Diana’s image on collectible plates—TM claim was maintainable. Property law: somewhere between all and nothing.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The same problems arose for Audible Magic, especially with the pandemic shift to live streamed performances, when classical concerts were wrongly flagged as copies of existing recordings, and for Content ID, showing that misidentification is a pervasive problem without a technical fix. Tech measures can still move the ball forward.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Those questions come from every angle and include debates about social media, the ethics of organ donation, writers’ ethics when using elements from another person’s life and much, much more. She took the words that someone else had written, copied them and used them in her story while presenting them as her work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2024

Guardian : Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns US * California AB-1394 : Commercial sexual exploitation: child sexual abuse material: civil actions: (g) (1) A social media platform shall not knowingly facilitate, aid, or abet commercial sexual exploitation. (2)

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cognosphere obtains the latter to compel online platforms, typically social media companies, to hand over whatever information they hold on alleged infringers. a process that grants subpoenas without safeguards, in particular the balancing of discovery requests against anonymous users’ privacy rights, risks violating those rights.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The amorphous nature of cloud computing presents a challenge when it comes to determining which laws will be applicable. Although cloud offerings are often global and multi-jurisdictional, the IP laws governing services generally remain territorial and national. Copyright laws, for instance, vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 21, 2021

The man in the photo, whom Dolezal previously identified as “my dad” in social media posts, was later revealed to be Albert Wilkerson Jr. , In a forthcoming law review article, professor Cathay Smith writes about the increasingly widespread phenomenon of “weaponizing copyright.” View Fullscreen.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Influence of law, desire to contract, social norms. Deterrence and morality were both invoked—rightness was informed by the law. Even where permission not legally required, thought was better results due to advances in technology—social media influencing: the advertiser wants customized content. standards in law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The district court enjoined the law , and Florida appealed to the 11th Circuit. As you’ll see, this post spends most of its words critiquing the Knight First Amendment Institute brief, which claims to oppose the Florida law but unintentionally (?) Such a law plainly triggers (and flunks) strict scrutiny.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Matthew Sag, Copyright Safety for Generative AI Not addressing whether training is always fair use in every circumstance; explain how generative AI fits w/in existing law (nonexpressive uses) and identify best practices to make generative AI fairer. Are the outputs copies of the training data? But is generative AI really the same?

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Earlier this week, I attended an excellent talk with Frances Haugen, the well-known Facebook whistleblower, who delivered a compelling case that the social media giant, driven by profit maximization, consistently errs on the side of technical choices that keeps users engaged, angry, and on the platform, often at an enormous societal cost.

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The IPKat

JULY 7, 2024

Several years ago, the IPKat stated that the creation and distribution of GIFs does not necessarily appear to be a safe bet from a copyright perspective under the laws of the EU member states, as it would constitute a prima facie infringement given the closed list of exceptions and limitations. Kats are always right! 107 to apply.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The case involves an interesting interplay between copyright law, entertainment contracts and the First Amendment. In September 2021, Coakley issued his “Director’s Statement” on social media to coincide with Runt ‘s official release. In one notable case, Balsley v. LFP , Inc. ,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Many state legislatures draft Internet regulations without any genuine concern for whether or not the laws violate the First Amendment. As a result, state legislatures, both red and blue, are producing a flood of Internet censorship laws will tie up the courts for years. Griffin , 2023 WL 5660155 (W.D. Void for Vagueness.

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